Zdeněk Liška

Zdeněk Liška (16 March 1922 – 13 August 1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started towards the start of the 1950s. He worked notably with animator Jan Švankmajer, scoring several of his earlier short films: "Punch and Judy" (1966), "Et Cetera" (1966), "Historia Naturae (Suita)" (1967), "The Flat" (1968), "Don Juan" (1969), "The Ossuary" (1970), "Jabberwocky" (1971), and "Leonardo's Diary" (1972), and later "The Castle of Otranto" (1979). Liška's music for Švankmajer's "Historia Naturae (Suita)", "The Flat", and "The Ossuary" was also featured in the 1984 short film by American animators the Brothers Quay entitled "The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer".

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